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Introduced June 27, 2025 by Alice Costandina Titus · Last progress June 27, 2025
The bill substantially expands protections, assistance, and U.S. diplomatic tools to defend LGBTQ+ rights at home and abroad and strengthens asylum, health, and documentation policies — at the cost of higher federal expenditures, added administrative burdens, privacy risks for vulnerable people, and likely diplomatic friction with governments opposed to these policies.
Immigrants and LGBTQ+ asylum seekers will be more likely to obtain protection and legal support: the bill recognizes more vulnerable groups, removes the one‑year asylum filing deadline, creates Priority 2 refugee eligibility, requires government-funded counsel for indigent noncitizens in covered proceedings, and mandates interviewer training to improve confidentiality and nondiscrimination.
LGBTQ+ people abroad will receive stronger U.S. diplomatic, multilateral, and programmatic support: the bill strengthens U.S. advocacy at the U.N. and multilateral banks, authorizes targeted sanctions/visa measures, prioritizes decriminalization and monitoring of abuses, and directs more inclusive foreign assistance to reduce violence and discrimination.
Gender‑diverse Americans and families using assisted reproductive technology will have clearer documentation rights: the State Department must allow a nonbinary/neutral passport sex marker (e.g., 'X') and clarify citizenship rules for children born abroad to legal parents recognized at birth.
Taxpayers and federal agencies will face higher costs: expanded reporting, new programs and coordinators, mandatory counsel, sanctions administration, and IT/training updates will increase funding needs and staff workload across State, USAID, DHS, DOJ, and other agencies.
U.S. promotion of LGBTQI protections abroad could strain diplomatic relations and national security cooperation: targeted advocacy, sanctions, and public naming of perpetrators may provoke retaliation, reduce cooperation on security and trade, and complicate engagement with governments that oppose these policies.
LGBTQ+ victims, asylum applicants, and service recipients may face confidentiality and safety risks: expanded data collection, reporting, and public lists could expose sensitive identities or incidents if privacy safeguards and protections are inadequate.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Uses diplomacy, foreign aid, sanctions, and immigration law to promote and protect LGBTQI rights worldwide, create a Global Equality Fund, a sanctions list, and expand asylum/refugee protections and identity rules.
Directs the U.S. government to use diplomacy, foreign assistance, sanctions, and immigration law to promote and protect the human rights of LGBTQI people worldwide. It creates new reporting and accountability requirements, a sanctions list for serious abuses, a permanent Special Envoy and a Global Equality Fund for grants and emergency aid, changes asylum and refugee rules to recognize persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and updates U.S. passport and citizenship rules to allow self-selected sex markers and clarify parentage for births by assisted reproductive technology. Requires agencies to collect and publish new data, train health/aid partners, condition certain foreign-aid contracts on nondiscrimination, provide more legal protections and processing for asylum seekers and refugees based on sexual orientation/gender identity, and improve protections for U.S. diplomatic staff and families abroad. Deadlines and reporting obligations (many within 90–180 days) direct agencies to implement these changes rapidly after enactment.